As I travel around the world all year long, leaders and achievers — people just like you — tell me the same things over and over. I’m so busy, my plate is so full.” I can’t seem to get anything done.” There is too much email and too many interruptions.” If you have said, thought, [.]. Achievement Leadership Learning

My Twitter colleague, Renee Charney of Charney Coaching & Consulting wrote a great post on her blog on the Ladder of Inference. Like Renee, I like this tool and it is a great tool for moving from faulty decision making to informed decision making. It’s helpful for preventing us from making that all too human [.].

It’s that time of year. As we prepare to “check out” for a few days, with family, and loved ones, and food, and faith, we look back over a year nearly gone. So, looking back, here is my list of some of my favorites – my very personal “best of” lists for 2011. It is [.].

The past is the future for most of us. We cling to misguided notions that persistence, endurance, and more of the same will result in a new future. It won’t. 99% of the conversations I have about the future are actually about the past. People try to create a future by cling to or modifying [.].
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We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old someone has knocked creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, [.]. Innovation strategic thinking survival skills
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W E HAVE more recorded information about leadership now than at any other time in history. Most of it deals with the surface turbulence, which is important but not complete. For the most part, it’s still business-as-usual within the same framework— control. We could all benefit from daily reflection. Leadership matters now more than ever. Kraemer.
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The end of the year is typically a time spent scrambling to do all the things you need to get done but still haven't finished. However, it’s also a time to reflect on our accomplishments and think about what we want to achieve for the New Year. That includes individual development goals. No, these are the big, hairy, audacious, goals (BHAGs).
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Helen Hayes is best known as a legendary actress. Today’s quotation shows her to be more than a talented pretty face, but someone who was wise, at least in part, because she listened to her mother (which I’ve generally found to be pretty good advice, in itself). “My mother drew a distinction between achievement and [.].
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